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INDtPCNDENCC gNTCWPWISE. INDEPENDENCE. OREGON, JUNE . 1.1
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RAKES AND
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JOHN DEERE BUGGIES ARE ALL RIGHT
NELSON
STUftll
JERSEY HERD:
as a consequent e it Is no doubt that
when he finally assembled the herd,
consisting of twenty-two he fers and
two bulls, he had the pick of the two-
ear-old stuff on t'-e Is and cf Jersey.
a the herd are animals from such
noted bree.ers as J. P. Ronierll and
'j. V. Mail. tt. while a go;:d!y number
,are from St. Heliars and St. Peters,
Having traveled oier 7j00 miles the heaviest exporting centers on the
and having spent fifty-three days in iglandi
transit, the herd of I.a:d Jersejs mj Jt trulhfuy
being imported by Messrs. Nelson and y om.e ROt.
Stump arrived at Independence with he, tne genteinen responsl
Koss Nelson in charge. Wednesday. e;lt,.n r 8e . fwt very w0,
June 8. not wcay and em mate J with g;UUfw wlth the p laborg and secure
their long trip but looking as fresh that a herJ
and well conditioned as if they had surpaised fcy any t0Bt nave r,pr
only come in from across the rlter mtJe Wand king.
from summer pasture. dQm
To get a first look at a real Island Tq glvg gDme ,dea of the magnitude
importation we Journeyed aown iiuu RnQ e difri;ultie3 of such an under-
, j .Kr.muh tha kind- .... .. .. . j a
Tl.i riiii.lltUin of the bTil apoka vol
ume fr the handling they retell
In transit. For In looking them over
0110 could marvely b!leve but that
bey bad been browsing lo this par
ticular liun aline they were born,
However, Ib.y had Just rouipl led a
'Journey of oer 7000 mile and b
i on the rvad nearly sixty day.
j Una U at oma struck with one very
notlceablo feature, and that Is. th(
extraordinary uniformity of the herd.
One U lead lo believe that they taunt
have beloiued to one man. yet lUih
i not the case. This feature eem
to indicate that there U a general de-
! a.and, and a universal Id. a of trp
over there which I followed more
generally than It U here. At the same
I lime type U a hobby there, at It la
'here, there Is evidence lu this herd (
that the prime purpose Is not over
looked, and that Is tnllk production,
for It U the general sentiment of all
'who have bee:i favored with an In-
pectlon of the entire herd that they
are unmistakably strong on all those
points considered essential for bay
records at the pall. These two fea
tures strike the otserver at a glance
'and slvo the herd an originality of
1 appearance which Is, to say the least.
! .MirlV In
All the heifers are with calf with
the exception of two. which dropped
their calves on the road. One which
dropped at Itoston died, and In a
sense this was net unfortunate.
Mr. Spann. while on his tour
through the Island, noted what claims
was the tnest type of a Jersey cow
ho had ever seen, lie was later able
. r h..r calves. When
lO seviiie i "
'the first ca'f died In quarantine. Mr.
! Spann assured Mr. Nelson that In
I view of the friendly feeling which
'had prevailed anions all parties dur
ling, the time they had worked to
gether he wished to make hltr a pres
ent and so gave him this call of hU.
which was his own favorite. Mr. Nop
I g0n appreciated this very highly and
ays that It is an Indication of the
high Qualities of this gentleman as he
found him. The other ca-f was born
! ri., Oreeon. These two are
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(Contlnned on page eight.)
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Spacious and fully equipped
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Charges are reasonable and
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We do everything that is done in iron
il
IndeDendence. and through the kind
ness of these gentlemen the Agricul
turist is able to give some data re
specting their long journey. The here
was picked and selected by W. R.
Spann of Texas, the noted Jersey au-
i -;t Indira nnrl mioorter. ir.
LIlLfllL.T. J""-! .. .
taking, we will follow the herd from
the time it left the island:
First, the official of the American
Jersey Cattle Club stationed there af
fixed around the horns a chain and
lock with a number. This number
' il.i hnif n rec-
Spann was chosen to judge the bull tho
show in the Island while over there Qn islan(I
a high compliment paid by the Jersey tran8port.
Islanders to the Ya.ikee brethren. r.nree's channel to
Mr. Spann had carte blanche orders Sotliain!)Un and thence by rail to
in his selections and journeyed a!! Liv(,,.pHol Ht,re they were taken
over the Island, which is not large, to Layland liner, the S. S.
be sure, but contains more full blood- shipped to Boston, being j
ed animals to the square mile than
any other place in the wor,d. And in lan(1(jd ftt Boston( Apr;l 27, and wei.t!
his travels he visited rra:tkaly all lm,.1(.(iiate into quarantine at Little-j
the large breeders there. Mr. im.m
had also the advantage of having at
tended all the serni-annual shows, and
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m.-ntv-four days en voyage. They
ton, some thirty-four miles from lios
ton. Here they were retained tor the
regulation tbiriy days, and here Kot-a
Nelson received them and started on
the lontr j-jitnit-j across the continent
for the Pacific coast.
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A glance at tne rouie iravKiacu.
gives some i;lt a of the travel e-Uailed
by sucli a jonn cy.
At Littleton they were shipped over
thp Boston & Maine to Fltchburg,
MaHSachusetts.then over the Delaware
& Hudson to Binghampton, N. V.,then
followed the Lackawanna to Buffalo,
the Nickel Plate to Chicaero, through
to which place they were pnt in tiui
record time of seven hours; here they
wtrs picked up by the C. M. & St. P.
and taken to Cmaha and were then
respectively handled by the Lnlon Pa
to Portland, ar.d finally by the South
cific, Oregon Short Line, O. R. & N.
em Pacific to Inder-endence. where
they arrived Wednesday, June 8, 1910.
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